I guess John Wall didn't know that the Raptors play in Canada

It starts at around 0:45. This is hilarious yet at the same time extremely sad! Is this a recurring trend with basketball players? It is still entirely possible that they just mistranslated the sentence since it's in Mandarin. Still... Really John Wall?

would posit that it's far more likely since he's reading lines that are literally in fucking chinese to him that he does in fact realize when he goes through customs and has his passport checked to play games against the raptors he is entering another country.

ceez wrote:

John Wall is notoriously dumb as a brick

can you bear that out a little further? that's the first time i've heard anything of the sort and i've followed pretty closely since he committed to uk. a quick google search only shows what a waste of breath colin cowherd is (but we already knew that) and that some guy named jason reid working for the post who shat on him for getting inked is pretty stupid.

or is this just basic blowhardery like the poster in another thread a few days ago who called him a selfish player? clearly that guy's never seen him play or know anything about him.

would posit that it's far more likely since he's reading lines that are literally in fucking chinese to him that he does in fact realize when he goes through customs and has his passport checked to play games against the raptors he is entering another country.

Exactly, he's reading lines phonetically written in front of him while being asked questions in basically jibberish as far as he can tell.

If anything get mad at the person who wrote those lines for them to say.

This thread is pointless. DO you all have such an inferiority complex? Some non-educated group of athletes doing a promo are ignorant of their own lives. I'm sure John Wall couldn't properly answer a bunch of easy questions.

I mean, I'm 99% sure if someone asked him "have you ever been outside the 50 states?" he'd probably say "no", despite the fact that he lives/works in DC, which is not a state.

This thread is pointless. DO you all have such an inferiority complex? Some non-educated group of athletes doing a promo are ignorant of their own lives. I'm sure John Wall couldn't properly answer a bunch of easy questions.

I mean, I'm 99% sure if someone asked him "have you ever been outside the 50 states?" he'd probably say "no", despite the fact that he lives/works in DC, which is not a state.

I'm confused by your statement. Can you re-phrase it, please?

If Your Uncle Jack Helped You Off An Elephant, Would You Help Your Uncle Jack Off An Elephant?

Sometimes, I like to buy a book on CD and listen to it, while reading music.

i interpreted it as that there is a real weird insecurity in canadian media and maybe the canadian public in general and definitely on this here board where people love to cry american ignorance/arrogance and yet still pine for validation.

american media pays almost no attention to the raptors because we're irrelevant on the nba landscape. it's nothing personal.

john wall probably doesn't think much about canada because why would he? also not personal.

and like i said upthread i'd bet a dollar he knows what country toronto is.

And also prompted by a statement of a professional athlete who probably stopped doing his homework sometime in high school. The 2nd part of my statement was made to suggest that many of these guys would be totally ignorant about THEIR OWN COUNTRY, let alone anything beyond those borders. Hence I said if the question had been "have you ever travelled outside the 50 states?", he'd probably say "no", not realizing/thinking that DC is not a state (it's a district), and he thus lives and works outside the 50 states for half the year.

Seriously, ignoring American/Canadian aspects of this....professional athletes who stop having to educate themselves when they're still teens are like the worst people to care about their knowledge. I remember when LeBron came into the league, and was doing promos where he'd have to read cue cards....Dude would read at like a 3rd grade level. 10 second spots became 20.

Enjoy the basketball....but most of these guys don't have the insight to say anything worth listening to on another subject. Most of them don't care about being smart or informed.

*Oh and also it's not like the other guys corrected him. It's just a stupid promo. Maybe I'm right and he's not the most educated/quickest thinker...maybe he just didn't care since it's a stupid promo.

And also prompted by a statement of a professional athlete who probably stopped doing his homework sometime in high school. The 2nd part of my statement was made to suggest that many of these guys would be totally ignorant about THEIR OWN COUNTRY, let alone anything beyond those borders. Hence I said if the question had been "have you ever travelled outside the 50 states?", he'd probably say "no", not realizing/thinking that DC is not a state (it's a district), and he thus lives and works outside the 50 states for half the year.

Seriously, ignoring American/Canadian aspects of this....professional athletes who stop having to educate themselves when they're still teens are like the worst people to care about their knowledge. I remember when LeBron came into the league, and was doing promos where he'd have to read cue cards....Dude would read at like a 3rd grade level. 10 second spots became 20.

Enjoy the basketball....but most of these guys don't have the insight to say anything worth listening to on another subject. Most of them don't care about being smart or informed.

*Oh and also it's not like the other guys corrected him. It's just a stupid promo. Maybe I'm right and he's not the most educated/quickest thinker...maybe he just didn't care since it's a stupid promo.

Lebron is one dumb fuck. I'm not even going to argue with you on that.

If Your Uncle Jack Helped You Off An Elephant, Would You Help Your Uncle Jack Off An Elephant?

Sometimes, I like to buy a book on CD and listen to it, while reading music.

I'm a Canadian, currently living on another continent, and I pretty much roll canadian and the us together when talking to people here in Africa. From the perspective of another continent, where they study North American History as much as we study the history of Africa, we've got the same history, culture, and economy.

In any event, it's a non-issue for me. Unless I am also stupid as a brick. Which may be true.

"We only have one rule on this team. What is that rule? E.L.E. That's right's, E.L.E, and what does E.L.E. stand for? EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY. Right there up on the wall, because this isn't just a basketball team, this is a lifestyle. ~ Jackie Moon

"We only have one rule on this team. What is that rule? E.L.E. That's right's, E.L.E, and what does E.L.E. stand for? EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY. Right there up on the wall, because this isn't just a basketball team, this is a lifestyle. ~ Jackie Moon